What kind of aftermarket muffler should I install?

[nogard]

The car has newer exhaust on it from the previous owner. It has 3S-FE with 5 spd. I don't want to have (no offence to high schoolers) ricer high school exhaust, I've been there before. I would like to have a more refined sound, like a stock V6 Ford Probe, or a newer V6 Mitsubishi Eclipe. I guess I would call it a Euro sound. I just want to uncork the car, give it a little more than stock. I want a nice lower power sound that fades as it revs. Not the usual rattling rasp of metal as it revs.

I was thinking about trying a Flowmaster 40 series muffler. Single in Dual out. And have two short pipes out the back brought together a little with two chrome tips. So it would have the apperance of a dual tip. Any thoughts?

[WVcamry3sfe]

you will not be able to get that sound with any muffler in your 3sfe camry. the reason why is because the 3sfe is not a V6... a v6 sounds different (more mellowed out) than an inline 4 because its exploding 6 times during a revolution vs just 4 times... you want the v6 sound, get a v6 engine.

you can however get a nice sounding exhaust with the 3sfe with proper usage of resonators and a muffler.

btw flowmaster sucks for muffs IMHO

the HKS high power stainless steel muff sounds very nice, and it wasn't all that loud for me before I removed my cat. the cat does much to muffle the engine noise

[Zandro]

It`s pretty clear to me that he`s not after the actual V6 sound but the characteristics with a low deep hum at idle/low speed that lightens up when you hit it. Walker makes a exhaust for the 3S-FE that`s called SoundFX that gives this effect, i have this exhaust system combined with a Italian twin tip tailpipe that gave me the sound i was looking for. I have never been a fan of these "loaf grills" "fartcans" and god knows what other name you have for them.

[nogard]

Well, thank you for your input. Zandro you are correct I'm looking for the sound charactaristics. I understand that a V6 have different valving and will of course have a totally different sound in herent to the design. I am familiar with Walker exhaust. I will look into it, thank you for the picture and the exhaust diagram. Would you have any sound clips you could post?

My last 2nd gen wagon was a V6 and it was loud, especially after I hollowed out the cat. I will never do that again. And it didn't sound the best, I did need more resonators to tone it down. Placement of mufflers makes a difference too. I had a tercel with two trush glass packs (actually a small straight though muffler). One about half way to take out the higher pitch sounds and one in the normal mufflers spot to just bring the sound down a few dB's.

I didn't realize flowmaster sucked so much, that is good to know. I will also check into the HKS set up.

Thanks for the input guys